Sunny's Time Now
2008-11-14 | 108 minutes
Plot Summary
Retracing the longstanding career of avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray, one of the most influential figures of the Free jazz revolution. Through a series of interviews with key time witnesses as well as historic and contemporary concert footage, it reassesses the relationship between the libertarian music movement and the political events of the 1960s, whose social claims it so intimately reflected. By doing so, it also recounts how the most radical forms of musical expression were excluded from the major production and distribution networks as the libertarian ideal went out of fashion. Beyond its historical approach, the film follows Sunny Murray on current gigs, showing his daily struggle to perpetuate a musical genre which is still widely ignored by the general public. In doing so, Sunny's time now also dwells on the near-clandestine community of aficionados who continue to worship the gods of their musical coming of age, and whose unfaltering support has permitted free ...
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann
-
Sonny Sharrock Band - Lucerna Hall Prague 4.10.90
-
AFIJN (Misha Mengelberg)
-
City of the Winds
-
Wealth of a Nation
-
You See What I’m Trying To Say?
-
Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969
-
Ornette: Made in America
-
Reflexão, Improvisação
-
Streetlight Opus
-
John Coltrane Quartet: Live in Liège
-
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
-
Duende: Joëlle Léandre solo
-
The Cry of Jazz
-
Angel Bat Dawid - Ground Control
-
Thick Air
-
Fire Music
-
Milford Graves Live at Jamaica Arts Center
-
J.D. Allen Live
-
After that, 100 years of fighting